Opelousas, LA Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

86 ft 26 m70 ft 21 m62 ft 19 m46 ft 14 m29 ft 9 m21 ft 7 m

Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 ft

USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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How to use this mapviews, tools and data

Elevation: Ground colored by height from green (lowest) to white (highest), with contour lines every 40–500 ft (USGS data).
Satellite: A 2016 satellite photo at 33 ft (10 m) detail; contours off.
3D: Tilt and turn the terrain; hills are raised 1.5×, or set ×1 for true height.
Click or tap anywhere: The exact elevation of that spot in ft and m.
Measure: Pick two points for the climb, descent and grade along a straight line.
City area: Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).

Elevation Data

Opelousas sits at about 64 ft (19 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.

Typical elevation

64 ft 19 m

most residents: 57–71 ft

Lowest

21 ft 7 m

on the south side

Highest

86 ft 26 m

on the east side

Average

61 ft 19 m

all land inside city limits

Opelousas spans about 65 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where its people live, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.

Figure	Elevation
Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower	64 ft19 m
Highest point Inside city limits, on the east side	86 ft26 m
Lowest point Inside city limits, on the south side	21 ft7 m
Town center USGS map point for Opelousas	68 ft21 m
Airport (OPL) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways	74 ft23 m
Average of all land	61 ft19 m

Elevation profile, south to north

6.2 mi south to north through the town center.

Topographic Map

Location: City in St. Landry Parish, Louisiana, United States
Population: 15,176 2024 est.
Land area: 9.7 sq mi
Density: 1,569 per sq mi
Coordinates: 30.5335° N, 92.0815° W
Time zone: Central UTC−6 / −5
Landform region: Coastal Plain
Drains to: Gulf of America
Airport: St Landry Parish (OPL) 74 ft
ZIP codes 1: 70570

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

Opelousas64 ft
Lawtell59 ft
Chataignier58 ft
Washington54 ft
Grand Coteau53 ft
Sunset48 ft
Church Point47 ft
Cankton42 ft
Port Barre28 ft
Leonville27 ft
Arnaudville26 ft

Rankings by typical elevation

Towns in Louisiana223rd highest of 481
Towns in St. Landry Parishhighest of 15

How we measure

Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city limits, at its USGS 3DEP height, weighted by the people who live there. Half of residents live higher, half lower.
Lowest, highest, average: USGS 3DEP bare-earth heights on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid, land only, inside the Census city limits (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
Nearby Places: nearby towns and rankings use each town's typical elevation, so every town is compared like for like. Rankings count every city, town, township and census-designated place, including places inside a town. Peaks and hills: the nearest summits with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence within 62 mi (100 km), then federal (GNIS) summits within 16 mi (25 km) when there are fewer than 5; each is the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a usable survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it (shown as published).
Rounding: computed heights are rounded to 10 ft (5 m), or to 1 ft (1 m) under 100 ft; 3DEP is good to about a meter, not a foot. Published figures (FAA airport elevation, NGS survey heights) are shown as their publisher gives them.
Datum: North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88). NGS plans to replace NAVD 88 with a new datum (NAPGD2022); heights will then shift slightly.
Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.